1507: CrazyFont Jan 27, 2019

There are plenty of writing-systems around the world, each suited in some way or another to a language. However, due to the standardizations from mechanical writing in both printing and now also digital typing, many people are limited in access, especially in comparison to the universality of a pen. Cyrillic is used by hundreds of millions of people, but only in parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia; outside of that, access to a specific keyboard isn't always easy. People are fairly innovative however, and many Russian speakers or other users of cyrillic will use what is sometimes called "CrazyFont": writing the words out in the Latin script—which is far more dominant on the Internet—and spelling Russian somewhat phonetically. It is non-standard, but fairly common.

There will be two more posts about the problem of typing over the next two days.

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